Interdisciplinary Studies

In many ways, this book is very different from almost all other books on this topic, not because this book does not depend on any individual case, ...

China''''s Ruling executive body, the State Council, established the China Investment Corporation (CIC), a sovereign wealth fund, in September 2007...

A one-of-a-kind reference book, Tennessee Tragedies examines a wide variety of disasters that have occurred in the Volunteer State over the past se...

Mountain Homespun will be of special interest to those studying southern Appalachian handicrafts, the 1890s handicraft revival, and northern Protes...

From 1900 through the 1940s Latino baseball players suffered discrimination, poor accommodations, low pay and homesickness to play a game they l...

Profiles of America is the only source that pulls together, in one place, statistical, historical and descriptive information about almost every pl...

Profiles of America is the only source that pulls together, in one place, statistical, historical and descriptive information about almost every pl...

The large scale, practical uses of natural gas were initially introduced by innovators Joseph Pew and George Westinghouse for the steel and glas...

Beginning with Number 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensi...

The current horrific malaise in the state of Iraq has its roots in the US-led destruction of Iraq in 1991, followed by a decade of harsh US-led int...

Looting Greece examines how and why the Syriza party, which took power in January 2015 promising to end eliminate debt, end austerity, and return G...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the U.S. recognised the independence of all the former Central Asian republics, supported their adm...

Faith-based and secular approaches to politics and foreign policy have often been involved in a kind of uneasy and adversarial ''''contest.'''' How...

This book presents a rigorous inquiry into one of the most striking transformation which has occurred in Africa''''s education today -- the Univers...

This book contains a variety of research related to the future of the federal budget. Significant uncertainty surrounds long-term fiscal projection...

Civilization implies, among other connotations, sophisticated religious beliefs. The archaeological construct of Indus civilization lacks sophistry...

Free expression is under threat. Social media and fake news, misinformation, and disinformation have prompted governments to propose new forms of...

From an award-winning Tunisian author comes a stirring allegory about a country in the aftermath of revolution and the power of a single quest. Si...

From an award-winning Tunisian author comes a stirring allegory about a country in the aftermath of revolution and the power of a single quest.Sidi...

This volume uniquely gathers scholarly articles dealing with very dissimilar and kaleidoscopic perspectives on India. It provides an informative ov...

With the end of World War II, Australians turned to rebuilding their nation, placing the perceived educational and social needs of children at the ...

In what we consider to be a timely collection of essays, the volume Rethinking the Humanities: Paths and Challenges tries to reflect upon the prese...

The burgeoning field of drinking studies, often ranging across and between disciplinary boundaries, explores the place of alcohol in human societie...

This handbook is a ''one-stop shop'' for current information, issues and challenges in the fields of research ethics and scientific integrity. It p...

This volume depicts the struggle of birds for freedom, an endeavour similarly experienced by women in the United States and other regions of the gl...

Populism is one of the most frequently used terms in todays political discussions. From Turkey to the United States of America, the effect of popul...